Jaime Bermúdez Merizalde (born ) is a Colombian lawyer and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia from 2008 to 2010.

Career

Jaime Bermúdez graduated from Gimnasio de los Cerros in 1983.Noticias - Gimnasio de Los Cerros
/ref> He attended University of the Andes, and graduated in Law in 1992. He later obtained a

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to study for a

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degree from

St Antony's College, Oxford St Antony's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1950 as the result of the gift of French merchant Sir Antonin Besse of Aden, St Antony's specialises in international relations, economics, politic ...

. Between 1991 and 1993, Jaime Bermúdez was adviser to the Colombian government's ''Consejería de Derechos Humanos'' (Human Rights Committee) and the

Minister of Foreign Affairs In many countries, the ministry of foreign affairs (abbreviated as MFA or MOFA) is the highest government department exclusively or primarily responsible for the state's foreign policy and foreign relations, relations, diplomacy, bilateralism, ...

. Between 1993 and 1994, he was coordinator of the "Good Neighbors Commission". In 1994, he was a UN-appointed observer of the presidential elections in

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. In 1996, was executive director of the ''Consorcio Iberoamericano de Investigaciones de Mercado, CIMA.''Press Release
Jaime Bermúdez: Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores
''Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Colombia)''". Between 2002 and 2006, Bermúdez was a communications adviser to President

Álvaro Uribe Álvaro Uribe Vélez (born 4 July 1952) is a Colombian politician who served as the 31st President of Colombia from 7 August 2002 to 7 August 2010. Uribe started his political career in his home department of Antioquia Department, Antioquia. H ...

whom he met around 1998 while they were both students at Oxford University. He was then named as Colombian ambassador to

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, a position that he held from August 26, 2006 to July 9, 2008.

Publications

As a member of the "Good Neighbors Commission", Bermúdez edited the book ''Colombia–Venezuela, un nuevo esquema bilateral'' (''Colombia–Venezuela, A New Bilateral Framework''). Together with Cynthia Arnson, he collaborated on the report "Los procesos de paz en Colombia: Múltiples negociaciones, múltiples actores" ("The Peace Process in Colombia: Multiple Negotiations, Multiple Actors").Cynthia J. Arnson, et al.
Los procesos de paz en Colombia: Múltiples negociaciones, múltiples actores
" ''Woodrow Wilson School - Latin American Program Special Report'' January 2007 Bermúdez has been a contributor to the Colombian publications '' Estrategia y Economía'' and '' Revista Diners''.

References

External links

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Jaime Bermúdez Sería El Nuevo Canciller
. ''El Tiempo''. (June 9, 2008) *
Foreign Minister Araújo resigns
. ''Colombia reports''. (July 16, 2008) *

Secretaria de Prensa, Presidencia de la Republica. July 17, 2008 *

ABC.
Interview for Argentinian TV

Designation ceremony
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bermudez, Jaime 1966 births Living people People from Bogotá 20th-century Colombian lawyers Ministers of foreign affairs of Colombia Ambassadors of Colombia to Argentina Alumni of St Antony's College, Oxford University of Los Andes (Colombia) alumni